Tag Archives: Helen Kerr

Grin Theatre Bring Back Queertet For Third Year Running.

Queertet, The award-nominated festival of LGBT theatre is back and for the third time and is bigger, bolder and even more brazen!

Grin Theatre Company presents Queertet 2014, featuring four LGBT themed plays from three Liverpool writers and one from a playwright from New York. All four plays have LGBT themes, from a wedding night love triangle in Las Vegas to a world where women are not allowed to exist which is difﬁcult for a lesbian couple!?

The plays that form this years Queertet are as follows:

A Party of Three written

by John Maines I Directed by Natalie Kennedy.

Grin Theatre Bring Back Queertet For Third Year Running. full post

(300 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Laying Tracks, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Elaine Stewart, Ben Sherlock, Ann Edwards.

Writer: Jack Stanley.

Grin Theatre and new writing, it goes hand in hand with a newly temperate person finding they adore the taste of Ginger Beer, an England football team being lauded and dismissed in equal measure and the hope that at some point an unpopular Government will fall upon their collective swords.

Laying Tracks, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Voices 2, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Performers: Paul Taylor, Elaine Stewart, Edwina Lee, Esther Dix, James Bray, Helen Kerr.

Writers: Mark Anthony Rossi, Anthony Ellison, Mary Vigar, Sally Fildes-Moss, Mark Konik, Richard Lyon Conlon.

In September of 2013 Grin Theatre paved the way for a new way of looking at writing and performing in Liverpool with six monologues crafted by writers who weren’t known to the public. These six monologues formed the basis of the first Voices performed at 81 Renshaw Street. If something works as they say, keep going, and Kiefer Williams and Helen Kerr of Grin Theatre have done just that by hosting a very cool night of six different monologues for Voices 2, each individual, each creatively interesting and all carried out by the various performers’ voices with great care and reverence.

Voices 2, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool. full post

(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Grin Theatre Company Brings Back Its Stage Horror Just In Time For Halloween.

The devil is out to play this Halloween as Liverpool based Grin Theatre brings back its critically acclaimed “video nasty for the stage” Tongues, written by Wes Williams and directed by Tony Blaney.

Tongues is the story of three people, Mark Cottingham, a young man held in a psychiatric unit played by Eddie Fortune, disturbed priest Father Liam played by Dale Grant and Dr. Eva Richmond, a counsellor supporting Mark and played by Helen Kerr. All three are battling individual and very different demons which manifest in the guise of Max played by Adam Vinten.

Grin Theatre Company Brings Back Its Stage Horror Just In Time For Halloween. full post

(210 words, estimated 50 secs reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Patrick Maguire And Alan Anderson.

Patrick Maguire and Alan Anderson are part of the city’s thriving Liverpool Playwright community, a community that has had the illustrious likes of Fred Lawless (Nightmare On Lime Street, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Scouse Pacific, Hitchhikers Guide To Fazakerley), Karen Brown, Richie Grice, Donna Lesley Price, Helen Kerr (Grin Theatre) and Mike Neary pass through its doors at one time or another.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Patrick Maguire And Alan Anderson. full post

(1441 words, estimated 5:46 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview Special With Kiefer Williams Of Grin Theatre.

As artistic Director at Grin Theatre, Kiefer Williams has an enormous responsibility in pushing the work of young writers onto the stage. Alongside Simon James, Kiefer is responsible for bringing the fantastic Queertet to the stage, a set of four plays that deal with LGBT issues in today’s modern world. The two men are certainly proud of their work and the experiences they bring to the city of Liverpool and the work they do is certainly valued as the city gears up in preparation for the Liverpool Pride 2013.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview Special With Kiefer Williams Of Grin Theatre. full post

(1045 words, estimated 4:11 mins reading time)

Tongues, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Kerr, Paul Culshaw, Eddie Fortune, Dale Grant.

There are two sets of horror, the one that sets out to shock from the start, blood and guts everywhere, sometimes instruments of terror are involved and in the end it becomes a gore fest, certainly a jolt to the system but doesn’t leave much to the imagination. There is nowhere for the audience member to go to. The other type is explored by Grin Productions and Wes Williams’ dramatic, sometimes bestial, totally compulsive and mind wrenching production of Tongues.

Tongues, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street. full post

(372 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Simon James Of Grin Theatre.

In 2012 Grin Theatre Productions produced their ultimate piece of work so far, three short plays centred on women and the very different lives they can take. The three pieces starred Donna Lesley Price, Jennifer Bea and Kayla Keatley as the main focus of the stories and all three actors, writers and Grin Theatre themselves received, quite rightly, much acclaim for what they produced.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Simon James Of Grin Theatre. full post

(1630 words, estimated 6:31 mins reading time)

Grin Theatre Presents Their New Play, Tongues, To Liverpool Audiences.

Grin Theatre Productions present their violent, imaginative and sickening voyage in to a warped mind, Tongues.

Written by Wes Williams (Sweats, Mexico, Push) and directed by Tony Blaney (Cinderella, Rat Pack Party, Blues Brothers Live) the play is homage to the horror genre and writer Wes Williams makes no apology for this; “It’s not just a question of scaring people or even grossing the audience out, it’s about the power of language, the power of corruption and ultimately the power of evil. Look beyond the shadows and the darkness of the play and each of the four characters develop as whole and rounded if dangerously flawed persona throughout.”

Grin Theatre Presents Their New Play, Tongues, To Liverpool Audiences. full post

(177 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)